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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead
6.45* Prayer /or the Day with FR ALBAN MCCOY
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

by JOHN LE CARRE (12)

Aircraft and Flying
The increasing popularity of package holidays to foreign resorts, coupled with low fares, has made air travel available to many more people. But how does an aeroplane fly? How can a pilot navigate and land safely in cloud and fog? How safe is air travel? What is the future of aviation - supersonic or a return to airships? What are air pockets and exactly what does happen during turnround at an airport? British Airways pilot
Captain Terry Lakin , and author and aviation enthusiast
Chris McAllister join
Teresa McGonagle in the studio to answer your questions. Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people.
Editor PADDY O'KEEFFE

NEM, p 71; 0 Lord our God, arise (BBC HB 25); Canticle 7; Acts 27. v 35 to 28, v 1 (av); Lift up your heads (BBC HB 34) long wave only

Waiting for Bill by FIONA BARR
Read by Catherine Gibson ' Miss Brown applied her makeup at nine o'clock each evening. She also applied it at seven each morning. In the evening she felt her face and features had found themselves for the day. Her mood was set, and she was prepared to continue with coming night. And, of course, waiting for Bill ...
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland

The Marriage Bond by SUE
KRISMAN Harry is a loving husband put he is also an inveterate gambler. With two young children to bring up, Gwyneth has to use her womanly wiles to overcome the problem.
Directed by ENYD WILLIAMS

Mike Madelin , Janet Kear and Mike Morris answer Your questions.
Presenter Derek Jones
Producer ANNE BLAIR GOULD BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 2.5 pm)

Presenter Bill Breckon

A radio farce written by and featuring Peter Jones with Denise Bryer, Edward Cast,
Miriam Margolyes, Victor Spinetti and Harry Towb
A local call becomes an international telephonic nightmare when Dick tries to cover his tracks after a misspent afternoon.

12.55 Weather; Programme news

Presenter Peter Hobday

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with Sue MacGregor Among today's items Coping with Failure: PETER SPINKS meets a family whose child's exam results were less good than expected.
Editorial: SIMON JENKINS , Political Editor of The Economist.
Kidnapped (4)

' I was absolutely overjoyed that I had a place ... I expected a dream school in a stately home ... and when I got there and saw this appalling building I was in no way disappointed, I took the dream right in with me ... '
Elizabeth Blnckall talks to Margaret Korving about her schooldays just after the First World War. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER

Mummy No 7386, held in the collection of Bristol Museum, was chosen for a scientific study of the mummification process practised in Egypt 3,000 years ago.
John Irving describes the unwrapping and dissecting process, and shows how specialists have already been able to identify the name and profession of this ancient Egyptian.
Producer Roy Hayward BBC Bristol

Annerton Pit (2)

with Susannah Simons and Robert Williams on VHF until 5.55
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5.55 Weather; programme news

including Financial Report

Chairman
Robert Robinson Third semi-final
27: Midlands and Norm Christopher Carter (parish priest)
Peter Daniels (library assistant)
Robert McCrae (retired bacteriologist)
Dorothy Morton (retired hcadmistress) including Beat the Brains Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN. Questions set by tAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS (Rptd: Thurs 12.27 pm)

(Repeated: Wed 1.40 pm)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP'S surgery.
Producer RICHARD ELLTS (Repeated: Sat 3.0 pm)

A presentation of the poetry of R. S. Thomas by the poet himself.
The quiet development and growth in readership of Thomas's poetry now covers 35 years. His early work is rooted in the Welsh country communities which he served as a minister until his recent retirement. His later poems deal with the deepest needs of the human condition.
His namesake, Dylan, wrote about Wales with the wildness and vision of a child. R. S. Thomas has given us a Wales - and a vision of life - which are only possible for a grown person.
BBC Bristol

Each week a different musical work or topic.

There are aids for the blind, and aids for the handicapped, but what help is there for a blind person with a limited use of their hands?
Margaret Ford has some suggestions.
Presenter Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL

Michael Oliver reports on the opening of the 35th
Edinburgh
Festival; and Chris Powling reviews the new production of The
Sound of Music, starring PETULA CLARK at the Apollo Victoria in London.
Producers CARROLL MOORE and ROSEMARY HART
(For further details of Festival coverage: page 34)

with Alexander MacLcod

Bevis: the Story of a Boy (12) long wave only

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JOSEF SUK
The Czech violinist plays music by Vivaldi and Beethoven. gramophone records long wave only

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